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Mentoring is Good For You
Written by: Nicholas FraserArticle Overview: SME businesses have gaps in their critical skills. They run on sparse resources (people, time and finance) all focused on lots of operational details and red tape. In addition this focus is skewed by personal passions or backgrounds. What they need is a mentor!
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Mentoring is Good For You
Mentoring is good for you!
SME businesses have gaps in their critical skills. They run
on sparse resources (people, time and finance) all focused on lots of
operational details and red tape. In addition this focus is skewed by personal
passions or backgrounds.
Key issues I find in terms of business leadership in SME’s
are
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A lack of clear vision and direction
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Focus on operational as opposed to strategic
activity
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No delegation due to lack of trust
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No personal development time
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No focus on team development
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And sometimes there is no clear leader,
especially in partnerships
What MD’s and senior managers need is someone who can
provide
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Unbiased experience and high calibre support
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Robust challenges to thinking and activity –
asking BDQ’s – Bloody Difficult Questions
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A reality check with an opportunity to air
doubts, concerns, problems and get them
resolved
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Pressure to focus on key issues (MD’s and
managers tend to avoid difficult situations and challenges)
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Self development to reflect their needs
Mentors like me do not do things – they enable their mentoring
partners to do it for themselves. They realign individuals and teams to focus
on what is important for them personally and their business.
If you wish to appoint a Mentor like myself then it is best to meet
for an hour or so (with no obligation) to see if we can work together. This
relationship issue is very important. A Mentor
will need to become a close personal guide and that implies a lot of trust. But
once this relationship is established, businesses and their staff can find
themselves being transformed with improved self awareness, growth in self
confidence, clarity of roles and a more strategic view of the business. One
thing you can be assured of is that Mentoring is definitely good for you.
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